Word: worthlessness
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...counselor report comments, "the job was nearly worthless but the experience was very valuable indeed," and suggested for Ann a job "valuable in itself. Whatever it is, rather than valuable for what it demonstrates of the more foolish aspects of our society..." Another faculty recommendation was "Next year department store away from home. Following year: work with children on an Indian reservation...
...This is particularly interesting," the report adds, "inasmuch as it includes a number of persons who, for one reason or another, have not participated in any activities. Only four percent of the respondents felt activities to be "childish, noisy, and generally worthless...
...inadequacy of his law to handle labor problems in times of national stress. The government's dilemma is this; on one side there are production schedules which must be kept, on the other there is the constitutionally protected right to strike. The Taft-Hartley Law's injunction powers are worthless here because their use simply gives each side eighty days more to think up bigger and better arguments against each other. And if the Miners' strike of 1947 is any indication, the government cannot make an injunction stick anyway. What is needed, then, is some agency which, with the ability...
...this approach, claiming that students' reactions are not adequate to guide the planning of so important a program, but this objection ignores the fact that G.E. must influence students to succeed. Regardless of how fine a program it seems or how profound the theory behind it is, it is worthless if it fails to produce in students the traits of mind which it is designed to produce...
...difficult task of stringing the audience along as part of the investigatory committee (while the author constantly emphasizes that it is worthless to search for the truth) falls to the two main characters, played by Mildred Dunnock and Martin Gabel. With no distinctive characteristics other than their separate visions of the family set-up, they still manage to become credible, and one's sympathy switches periodically from one to the other. Miss Dunnock particularly, is excellent, her expressions and voice wavering just on the borderline between madness and sanity...